Group News 2023 2022.09.05 Jie Chen and Lei Huang joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2023.08.26 Dr. Yang gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Nanoscience and Technology, China (ChinaNano 2023) held on August 26-28, 2023 in Beijing, China. 2023.05.23 Mingyang Li has passed his Ph.D thesis defense, and Xu Chen has passed his M.S. thesis defenses. Congratulations! 2022 2022.11.19 Dr. Yang gave an invited talk at the Chinese Physical Society Fall Meeting 2022 held on November 17-20, 2022 in Shenzhen, China. 2022.10.13 Shuang Chai and Yutao Xie's review on "Antibacterial applications of elemental nanomaterials" was accepted for publication in Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, Congratulations! 2022.09.04 Lin Li, Jingjing Xie and Zehui Zhao joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2022.07.07 Mingyang Li's work on “Nanoparticle Elasticity Affects Systemic Circulation Lifetime by Modulating Adsorption of Apolipoprotein A-I in Corona Formation” was accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations! 2022.05.20 Lijun Jin has passed her M.S. thesis defense. Congratulations! 2022.05.11 Xinyang Jin has passed her M.S. thesis defense. Congratulations! 2022.04.16 Xinyang Jin's work on "How to Make Personal Protective Equipment Spontaneously and Continuously Antimicrobial (Incorporating Oxidase-like Catalysts)" was accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations! 2021 2021.09.06 Shuang Chai and Yutao Xie joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2021.09.03 Dr. Yang received a mianshang grant from the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province. 2021.08.20 Dr. Yang received a mianshang grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2021.07.01 The work "Boosting Antitumor Sonodynamic Therapy Efficacy of Black Phosphorus via Covalent Functionalization" was accepted for publication in Advanced Science. 2021.03.04 Feng Gao has passed his Ph.D thesis defense. Congratulations! 2021.02.26 Feng Fan's work on "pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles Composed Solely of Membrane-Disruptive Macromolecules for Treating Pancreatic Cancer" was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Congratulations! 2020 2020.12.23 Feng Gao & Tianyi Shao's work on "Surface-bound reactive oxygen species generating nanozymes for selective antibacterial action" was accepted for publication in Nature Communications. Congratulations! 2020.09 Xu Chen and Jingqiu Shang joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2020.06 Binqian Yang and Zhiyuan Li have passed their M.S. thesis defenses. Congratulations! 2020.03.19 Binqian Yang's work on "Selective Entropy Gain-Driven Adsorption of Nanospheres onto Spherical Bacteria Endows Photodynamic Treatment with Narrow-Spectrum Activity" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations! 2020.01.28 Zhiyuan Li's work on "Piezoelectric Materials as Sonodynamic Sensitizers to Safely Ablate Tumors: A Case Study Using Black Phosphorus" was accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Congratulations! 2020.01.09 Feng Fan's work on using Bioinspired Membrane-Disruptive Macromolecules as Drug-Free Therapeutics was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Bio Materials. Congratulations! 2019 2019.09.03 Tao Liu and Xinyang Jin joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2019.04.01 Dr. Yang gave an invited talk at the Spring 2019 ACS National Meeting held on March 31- April 4, 2019 in Orlando, FL. 2018 2018.11.30 Feng Gao's work on using S. aureus extracellular vesicle membrane-coated nanoparticle as active targeting drug carrier for eliminating intracellular S. aureus was accepted for publication in ACS Infectious Diseases. Congratulations! 2018.09.03 Lijun Jin and Yunpeng Yu joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2018.08.21 Dr. Yang gave an invited talk at the 256th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting held on August 19-23, 2018 in Boston, MA. 2018.06 Lulu Xu has passed her Ph.D thesis defense, and Shuai Qin and Fengyu Wang have passed their M.S. thesis defenses. Congratulations! 2018.03.29 Dr. Yang gave a Department Seminar Talk in the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. 2018.01.02 Lulu Xu's work on "Platelet Membrane Coating Coupled with Solar Irradiation Endows A Photodynamic Nanosystem with Both Improved Antitumor Efficacy and Undetectable Skin Damage" was accepted for publication in the Biomaterials. Congratulations! 2017 2017.09.03 Feng Fan, Binqian Yang, and Zhiyuan Li joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2017.07.30 Liwei is leaving for her Post-Doc training at University of Pittsburgh. Go go, Liwei! 2017.06.28 Ji-Gang Piao's work on how pH-sensitive zwitterionic ligand affects the tumor targeting and therapeutic efficacy of gold nanocage was accepted for publication in the Nano Research. Congratulations! 2017.04.22 Dr. Yang gave a plenary talk at the Opening Ceremony of the 2017 Annual Conference in Chinese for Graduate Students in Chemistry and Materials Science at USTC. 2017.04.20 Our work on skin-safe photothermal thereapy using polymer-based nanoparticle was accepted for publication in the Biomaterials Science as an Invited Ariticle. Congratulations! 2016 2016.10.25 Liwei Hui has passed her Ph.D thesis defense. Congratulations, Dr. Hui! 2016.10.17 Liwei Hui's work on drug carrier constructed using the upper critical solution temperature polymer was accepted for publication in the ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Congratulations! 2016.08.19 Dr. Yang received a mianshang grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2016.06.02 Kan Hu and Ji-Gang Piao have passed their Ph.D thesis defenses. Congratulations! 2016.01.11 Ji-Gang Piao's paper on "Cooperative Nanoparticle System for Photothermal Tumor Treatment without Skin Damage" was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations! 2016.01.06 Yuntao Xie's paper on antibacterial property of alkaline-earth-metal ions for publication in Scientific Reports. Congratulations! 2015 2015.12.22 Liwei Hui's paper on Antibacterial Property of Graphene Quantum Dots was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015.12.14 Ji-Gang Piao's paper, "Acid-Responsive Therapeutic Polymer for Prolonging Nanoparticle Circulation Lifetime and Destroying Drug-Resistant Tumors", was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015.12.04 Lulu Xu's paper on bactericidal polydendron was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015.09 Fengyu Wang and Shuai Qin joined the group as graduate research assistants. Welcome! 2015.06.19 Kan Hu's paper on activity mechanism of ORB-1 was accepted for publication in the Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Congratulations! 2015.05.25 Yuntao Xie passed his M.S. thesis defense. Congratulations! 2015.04.24 Liwei Hui's paper on antibacterial surface activated by solar near-infrared irradiation was accepted for publication in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. Congratulations! 2015.04.20 Dr. Yang gave an invited talk on our recent work with graphene-derivative-based antimicrobial materials at the 42nd International Conference on Metallurgical Coating and Thin Film held in San Diego of California. 2015.03.20 Liwei Hui is to present her recent work on surface disinfection at the 249th ACS National Meetings held on March 22-26, 2015 in Denver, Colorado. 2014 2014.10.06 Ji-Gang Piao's paper on erythrocyte-membrane coated gold nanocages for cancer photothermal therapy was accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Congratulations! 2014.09.03 Feng Gao joined the group as graduate student. Welcome! 2014.07.28 Xin Yang's paper on hydrophilic-and-cationic polymers as membrane-active antimicrobials was accepted for publication in Biomacromolecules. Congratulations! 2014.07.04 Liwei Hui's paper on the deactivation mechanism of the cytotoxicity of graphene oxide was accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Congratulations! 2014.06.29 Xin Yang received her M.S. degree, and Danyao Shi and Feng Gao received their B.S. degrees. Congratulations! 2013 2013.11.26 Dr. Yang was selected as a member of the Youth Innovation Promotion Association in 2014 (Chinese Academy of Sciences). 2013.10.08 Dr. Yang was awarded with the New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education of China, 2013. 2013.09 Ji-Gang Piao, Rui Zhu, Lulu Xu joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2013.06.29 Rui Zhu, Lulu Xu, Hao Fu, and Peng Chen received their B.S. degrees. Congratulations! 2013.05.01 Yunjiang Jiang's paper on acid-activated polymeric mimis of antimicrobials peptides was accepted for publication in Macromolecules. Congratulations! 2013.02.08 Kan Hu's paper on the activity mechanims of polymeric mimis of antimicrobials peptides was accepted for publication in Macromolecules. Congratulations! 2012 2012.09 Liwei Hui and Yuntao Xie joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2012.06 Yunjiang Jiang is leaving for graduate school at Colorado School of Mines. Congratualtions, Yunjiang! 2011 2011.09 Kan Hu and Xin Yang joined the group as graduate students. Welcome! 2011.09 Dr. Yang received a mianshang grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2011.07 Yunjiang Jiang decided to continue his work in Yang Research Group at University of Science and Technology of China for another year. Welcome, Yunjiang. 2011.07 Yang Research Group moved to University of Science and Technology of China. 2011.06 Gang Wei received his M.S. degree, and Yunjiang Jiang received his B.S. degree. Congratulations! 2010 2010.09 Dr. Yang received a mianshang grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). 2010.09.03 Ge He and Senbao Lin joined the group as graduate and undergraduate research assistant, respectively. Welcome! 2010.09.01 Gang Wei's paper on membrane-disrupting activity of antimicrobial methacrylate copolymers was accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomaterials Science Polymer Edition. 2010.09.01 Jing Shuai joined the group as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome! 2010.07.09 Yunjiang Jiang joined the group as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome! 2010.06.29 Xin Liu, Li Yuan, and Jiexin Zhang graduated with their B.S. degrees. Congratulations! 2010.03.01 Li Yuan and Jiexin Zhang joined the group as undergraduate research assistants. Welcome! 2009 2009.03.01 Fengbo Hu and Ruixue Gu joined the group as undergraduate research assistants. Welcome! 2008 2008.11.01 Xin Liu joined the group as an undergraduate research assistant. Welcome! 2008.09.19 Gang Wei joined the group as a graduate research assistant. Welcome! 2008.05.19 Dr. Lihua Yang started her career as a faculty at Sichuan University. |